Waste and environment are the only reasons you gave that speak to the preference being bad in any sort of objective sense. The status quo ante iPhones was lack

Waste and environment are the only reasons you gave that speak to the preference being bad in any sort of objective sense. The status quo ante iPhones was lack of repairability in cheap, small devices. The devices cost little and there was little economic friction to just getting another one. I don’t know for sure but I imagine the average length of use for Nokia devices was less than that of iPhones. The lives of people with wealth (which by world standards is just about everyone in the U.S.) is enormously wasteful, and unsustainable. Instead of focusing on one aspect of waste in our lives we should take a holistic approach.